Navarretia divaricata

Navarretia divaricata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Polemoniaceae
Genus:	Navarretia
Species:	N. divaricata
Binomial name
	Navarretia divaricata; (Torr. ex A.Gray) Greene

Navarretia divaricata is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name mountain navarretia, or divaricate navarretia. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Montana to California, where it grows in open habitat types.

It is a hairy, glandular annual herb producing a stem with pairs or whorls of purple-brown branches no more than about 10 centimeters tall. The leaves are divided into threadlike lobes. The inflorescence is a rounded head filled with leaflike green bracts deeply divided into long, narrow, pointed lobes. The small pink-tinged white to dark blue flowers are tucked amidst the spine-lobed bracts.^[1]

References

^ Johnson, Leigh; Gowen, David (2017). "Ex uno, multis: taxonomic revision in Navarretia divaricata (Polemoniaceae) and the recognition of four additional cryptic or near-cryptic species". PhytoKeys (91): 39–83. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.91.21530. ISSN 1314-2011. OCLC 7315431575. PMC 5784239. PMID 29422770.

External links

Navarretia divaricata. Jepson eFlora.
CalPhotos.

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[1] Johnson, Leigh; Gowen, David (2017). "Ex uno, multis: taxonomic revision in Navarretia divaricata (Polemoniaceae) and the recognition of four additional cryptic or near-cryptic species". PhytoKeys (91): 39–83. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.91.21530. ISSN 1314-2011. OCLC 7315431575. PMC 5784239. PMID 29422770.

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